Maxxis Cup Round 2 in Vigo

Posted: Mar 31, 2009

Here are a quick few words and the results from the Maxxis Cup Round 2 in Vigo from last week. Jess Stone is behind the keyboard today and she placed 2nd at both Gouveia and Vigo rounds and it's only her first year riding in Elite!

Maxxis Cup – Vigo
70 meters out of the start gate you were thrown into the most technical part of the whole track. You rode down a dusty, steep rock slab in which you had to jump over a gap on to the next boulder. It also had a very tight, loose right handed corner. You had to land, brake and turn in what was only a bike’s length so this was going to make or break your race run!


After this, it was pretty flat out with a few berms and a hip jump followed by a rock garden. This was then the first of the two north shore jumps. The second followed after a few turns. The next section went into a tight, rocky switchback with optional risky straight lines! You were then over the step down and from here on it was flat out. There were a couple more small rock gardens and dusty turns and a step down to flat. The track continued with a 25ft jump which was where the riders styled it up! By this point you were knackered as you had been sprinting for about a minute and a half at least in the heat and all you wanted to do is have a sit down and have a cold drink! However, this was the final sprint to the road gap into the finish arena.


RESULTS:

Cadets
Flockhart not faster than the Juniors this time, 13th in Elite if he was old enough. Look at the next two, all from a wet Scotland doing Chris Ball proud. Think the English are fast, think again, these young guns have the monopoly. Top three at the Junior Worlds in a couple of years, you bet! 12 riders in Cadets, only four were Spanish!
FLOCKHART, Sam 2:40.620
MCGLONE, Fraser 2:46.417
SCOTT, Mark 2:46.895

Elite Women
Six ladies raced and the top three were British! Moseley on board the Trek wiped the floor clean with a 22 second lead. Jess Stone on board that 2Stage bike we tested out here on Pinkbike. Curd previous Junior World Champs Silver Medalist at Fort William 2007 finished nicely in third.
MOSELEY, Tracy 2:53.278
STONE, Jessica 3:15.582
CURD, Katy 3:22.824

Veterans
Two old boys! At 38 I can't wait to get into the Vets category, roll on 40+
MUÑOZ, Manuel 3:10.891
MATE, Jaime 3:12.891

Master
12 raced, 11 were Spanish. 30-39 and a clear mile in front of the Vets.
GARCIA, FCO. Javier 2:49.281
VERDIA, JOSE Manuel 2:51.386
MALLO GARRIDO, Pablo 2:54.881

Junior
26 raced, half the field were tourists.
Hart would have placed 10th in Elite with his time of 2:36 and was a clear six seconds up on johnny foreigner No2.
HART, Danny 2:36.926
GUIJARRO VILLACIEROS, Javier 2:43.183
PARDAL, Francisco 2:45.370

Elite Men
Totaled 61 in total (There is no senior category).
No Gee Atherton this time around, Vasquez in fifth in front of a home crowd. The top four were close, all on a 2:33 but Pascal took the win in style on board his new MSC F5.
PASCAL, Mickael 2:33.008
GUARDIA PASCUAL, Bernat 2:33.151
NEETHLING, Andrew 2:33.239


This weekend we will be at the best domestic regional series in the U.K (All five rounds sold out in one week).

The "Pearce Cycles" Rd 1 at Bringewood near Ludlow on Saturday the 4th and Sunday the 5th of April 2009. I'll be racing and commentating so pop on over and say hello, I'll also have a bundle of Pinkbike stickers to hand out so pop on over to the DG van.

If you get any nice snaps, make sure you pop them up here on Pinkbike.com ASAP, it's dead easy, even I can do it!

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